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Risk & responsible use

Read this before you connect a funded account. Trading through an AI assistant is powerful and genuinely risky, and most of the safety comes from how you set it up.

This is not financial advice

Nothing in PrimeDelta, the assistant, or this documentation is investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell anything. An assistant that suggests a trade is not endorsing it, and it can be wrong. Every decision — and every loss — is yours.

You are the signer

PrimeDelta is non-custodial. The assistant, the SDK, and the MCP server can propose transactions, but each one is signed with your key, and PrimeDelta never holds it. What the assistant can do on its own is exactly what your signing mode allows — no more.

  • Browser signing puts a human in the loop: every transaction waits for you to approve it in your wallet. It only works on a local desktop, not on remote surfaces.
  • Server-side signing (a KMS key or a private key held by the server) lets the assistant sign without prompting you each time. That is more capable and more dangerous — the spend caps become your primary backstop.

Choose the weakest mode that still does what you need, and read the signing-modes matrix for where each one works.

The assistant can misunderstand you

A language model can misread "sell 10" as "sell 100", pick the wrong symbol, or trade on the wrong venue. PrimeDelta is built so that this is contained rather than catastrophic:

  • Spend caps are enforced off the assistant. A per-trade and a daily USD cap are checked by the server before a trade is quoted, so an over-cap request is rejected outright — the model cannot talk its way past them. See What the guardrails do.
  • Fund-moving categories are opt-in. Deposits, withdrawals, brokerage orders, and subaccount actions are off by default and must be enabled explicitly by the operator.
  • Reads are safe. Prices, balances, and quotes move no funds; the risk is only ever on the write tools.

None of this removes your responsibility to read what the assistant is about to do before you confirm it.

Eligibility and identity

Trading requires an on-chain Digital Identity tied to KYC. PrimeDelta is not available to everyone, and it is your responsibility to confirm you are eligible to use it in your jurisdiction and to meet the identity requirements before funding an account.

Test before you risk real money

  • Start on testnet, with test funds, until the flow you want behaves exactly as you expect.
  • Move to mainnet only once you have set your caps, chosen your signing mode deliberately, and watched a few trades go through end to end.

Mainnet moves real value

On mainnet there is no undo. A signed transaction that transfers funds is final. Treat the first mainnet trade of any new setup as a live-fire test with a small amount.

Market risk is still market risk

The agentic layer does not change the underlying risks of trading:

  • Prices move between the quote and the fill; set slippage sensibly and check the minimum-out on every swap.
  • Oracle instruments (tokenized stocks) only trade during US market hours.
  • Thin liquidity on a pool can move the price sharply on a large trade — check the spot price and quote before committing.

Keep your keys safe

Your key or KMS credentials are the account. Protect them accordingly:

  • Prefer a KMS key with tightly scoped permissions over a raw private key on a server. See the AWS and GCP guides.
  • Never paste a private key into a chat, a prompt, or a log.
  • If you self-host, read Operator hardening.